Long Island Medium Investigated For Fraud

According to Radar, Long Island Medium Teresa Caputo, is being investigated for fraud. Apparently she performed in front of 2500 paying people recently and she didn't get any readings right. None. I guess her advance team let her down that night and people complained to Ticketmaster about the performance. Do you remember that Steve Martin movie Leap Of Faith? That pretty much shows how psychics gather their information. Even though Martin played an evangelist in the movie, many of the same tricks hold true and the thing to do is get as much information about the people as possible. According to the investigation, when you buy a ticket to one of her shows, you have to provide your full name and address and phone number. Her staff then starts Googling everyone and looking for things they can use. They focus on the people who bought tickets in the first few rows. I have watched her television show a few times and of course she is always correct on the show. Who is going to watch or why would she participate if they made her look like an idiot?

This sucks donkey dicks. Ultimate spoiler alert. These rubes/fools and their money must part ways. There are Nigerian princes dreaming of separating these idiots from their money. Also, the carpet probably doesn't match the drapes on this broad. Are we gonna put her in the pokey for that too?

Ms. Cleo was the original! That Van Pug guy was so obnoxious with his crying. I remember when medium shows were all over daytime TV until the news shows started airing stings on how psychics were grifters. My fave is Laura Day,calls herself an intuitive, and counsels Demi Moore and Brad Pitt. She is obviously better with Pitt than Moore.

Oh nooo my neighbor loves her and even went to see her! Neighbor said she knew things that she just couldn't have guessed! I wonder if I should tell he or let her find out o her own. Of course I want to spread the gospel of Enty and tell her, possibly converting her into a daily gossip worshiper.

My sis loves psychics and mediums. She blabs to them all her business and is SHOCKED by how accurate they are. She went to one psychic about her relationship problems, and the psychic said her husband and her would work out. My sister is gay and has a wife.

I saw her live and the things that she said for some people were really impressive, so to say. But she only hit the mark two, maybe three times and everything else was her awkwardly scrambling and pacing around in rhinestone red soles. She only paid attention to people on an aisle and only the ones who had ground seats, which were $2500 a pop.

Huh. She seems to believe her own schicht. Prob means no harm but if u ever watched her shiw, its all the same- the dead are happy and want u to be happy too. Big woo. Idamae, now there was a psychic, lol. "You in danger girl!" Lol. Anyway, the medium will have usual answer: Sometimes spirit cant or wont come thru. Spirit can be blocked by lights or negative energy. I have no control over it, and am sincerely sorry yadda yadda yadda". How can u argue with that? But really wth was the audience expecting?!

I see the future… there's a man, a famous man, he will be written about, it will happen today… he has cheated on his significant other.

And more… I see… Four, no five, five parts, broken down, fewer words, only captions. There's a red carpet. It's bright and dark… a camera flash! There are famous people there, and there are more famous people in a different area, a shopping area, and… health, like a gym or a spa…

And I see beautiful women, not famous… they will be seen here by all today. They are people that we know… they are us! Their faces will be revea ====PLEASE INSERT CREDIT CARD TO RESUME READING.

I'm so glad she's been busted. Kelly Ripa is always blabbing how this "medium" told her (Ripa) she was expecting her second child before Ripa even told the "live" staff. Look at the tape. LIM comes in, kinda does a double take looking into Ripa's eyes and then starts her line of questioning regarding possible pregnancy. Pregnancy causes the shape of the eye to change – my friend suddenly couldn't wear her contacts and her ophthalmologist asked her if she was preggers. She was. My take, LIM knew Ripa, and as an expert scam artist, knew to recognize the signs, saw the deepening of the iris and made the call once Ripa gave a tell confirming her pregnancy. Sorry for the novel. I despise people who prey on the grief stricken and the wounded.

Not long ago 20/20 did a report on psychics. They talked to fans after a reading and they were all "psychic got almost nothing wrong!" But they played back the video and found the psychics threw out like 50 or 80 wrong things: "I see a J, John, do you know a John? No? James? Jay? Jack? Jeff?" The fans' brains ignored the missed stuff.

Had a reading done once and was told that among other things my "soul mate" would be someone I worked with and we would fall madly in love, have 2.5 kids yada yada. Well, bitch left out the fact that the man of my dreams was a lying piece of shit. He ended up being married with 3 kids already. Never trust hot Asian guys with dreads ladies!

It's about fucking time. People like her make me sick. I say this as someone who's mother is obsessed with people who proclaim they can contact my dead brother. Fuck her and everyone like her that preys on grieving people.

Hey Riven, my mom was the same way, she just wanted her dead mom's forgiveness for not taking care of her in her decline so she locked onto John Edwards like he was the answer..:-\ She would go Off trying to convince me to take her to a taping.

Henriette there was some man who had a face tat covering his entire chest, you know that was his fb profile pic. The only really weird part was when she asked If someone in a certain seating area had a feather that was special to the deceased Abe no one spoke up until finally this lady pulls a wad of cat hair out of her pocket and said she had been hoping to hear from her long dead cat. Theresa was all "he is here with us, he wants you to know he loves you, blah blah"

Is there anyone here who's had coffe this morning? I feel a couple tea todelers, but I feel someone who's had coffee. Yes, you had coffee. And you have a great great grandmother who has passed?? Yes. Well she's there when you drink your coffee. She wants you to be careful not to burn yourself because….wait…wait…ok, she's telling me that you like your coffee hot and she doesn't want you to burn your tongue. She…,wait….she tells me you have a favorite mug you drink out of…wait…she wants me to tell you she lines that one too, but that she used to put cubes if sugar of sugar in hers.

I was just in Lake Tahoe and she was performing there. I wonder if that's where it happened.

I personally don't know if I believe in psychics, though I did go to this one witch in Salem 6 mos ago, and she is the first psychic who's ever hit everything on the head and most of her predictions have come true.

I loved the show Medium! It was based on Allison DuBois and her family initially but they veered off and made their own stories. She's just one of the reasons I refuse to watch any "real" housewives show after finding out the "real" Allison is nothing like TV Allison and Joe.

This reminds me of that horrible Sylvia Brown who told a mother on national TV that her daughter was dead. Amanda Berry was found alive last year. Screw you, Sylvia Brown, and your scam artist ilk.

I would say good morning, but someone said we're now doing "ranked shout outs" and I wouldn't want anyone to feel like a Z-lister, much less anger some Milk Duds.

I've had a couple of amusing episodes w/psychics: the first one was around 25 years ago; I was going in to have my tea leaves red, but the reader (an older black lady) didn't do it like that–she'd prop your ankle on her knee, slap a piece of paper on the sole of your shoe, and scribble on it w/a ball-point pen to get her impressions. The one thing I remember distinctly is her telling me that my dead grandmother (I don't think I mentioned that, at the time, one of my grandmothers was dead) was looking out for me. I mentioned it to my mom years later; she got a funny look on her face and, after a moment, said "…you know, you always were her favorite grandchild." Um, no, I didn't know that…

The other one was when I went for a reading when I turned 50, and the psychic (this time a very friendly gay man) kept looking between my face and my hand, back and forth, over and over, until I finally figured out the problem and told him I was turning 50. "Whew," he said, "your hand kept saying "50" but your face was saying "40"". I'll take that as a compliment. 😉

I can't even get past @FSP comments .. Just did what @sandy did & now my puppy is licking my rug.. TY for making my day ! Gotta read rest of comments to make to just giggle this day away. The posters here by far are the most brilliant commentators on blogs!

Anyone can believe anything they want. They can have an opinion on whether something like mediums or psychics are real. Disregarding the reality of it (see: $1million offer noted above) isn't really an opinion; rather, it's more like willful ignorance.

The people who go to her are just desperate to hear what they want. They get sick comfort from giving fake psychics all their money. If it wasn't a psychic it would be a used car salesman, Wolf of Wall Street, hookers, a catfish who promised marriage if they kept sending money to London bc their visa was expired…

I have watched this show. I like her. I told my daughter today and I said I guess there is know hope. Terresa is nice person and has good kids and husbands is nice. Her nails are to long.I wonder if they are real.I do watch to much reality.The shows on NBC, CBS and ABC are to violent or just insult to me. Fox shows are real bad. I hope this not true, we will have to see the outcome.

she was great in Long Beach this week – nailed a huge number of the readings. It's fine to be a skeptic, but either she's really prepared and gathering information to "cheat" or she's incompetent and never gets a reading right. Can it really be both? Regardless – the night was VERY entertaining – she could be a comedian and would have been worth the price of admission.

What people don't realize is how much information they give psychics and it's in hindsight that the psychics are proven right. After and hour reading, a psychic mentions the client will "find love." Well, most people will find love unless they have are hermits or have some major socially awkward maladjustment.

My sister will continue to go to psychics no matter how many times they are wrong, because she wants to believe and actually, there are psychic addicts who are as bad as gamblers.

I had a folklore prof in college who lived for messing with psychics and did the best cold readings in class. Many in my class believed she was the real deal even though she told them outright she was just doing basic cold readings.

Anyone who reads up on cold reading can see this is exactly what she does, along with some hot reading when she has the opportunity. It's a talent actually, she's quite convincing. But when I see her talking to a little kid about their dead parent, I want to punch her in the face. Shameless, although I'm sure sh's convinced herself that she's doing them a favor.

I saw her a couple of years ago, and honestly, there was no way she could have known all that she did. It was a large venue, and she read in the front, back, middle, sides, and balcony-all over the place. A lot of people buy blocks of tickets, so I don't see how they could research every person. Theresa also says she doesn't want negative or scary stuff, but there was something that happened with an audience member that clearly left Theresa kind of shaken.

Anyway, it was a very interesting experience. However, I have worked in mental health for 20 years, and I believe I can do a great cold reading, just due to experience and history.

In the lobby they have attendees fill out prayer cards, with your name, address, illness, and so forth. His people go through and pick out different ones, which are read to him via a radio frequency and a tiny earphone.

Skeptic James Randi brought along recording/receiver equipment and was able to hear how the con works. Popoff's wife would say: "Peter, there's a woman named Mary McElderly, 123 Gotcha Street. She has trouble with her eyes and back."

Onstage, Popoff would parrot the stuff: "The Holy Spirit is calling on me, calling out for Mary, Mary McElderly, you have cataracts, you are worried about the surgery."

Caputo may do things differently, but it's probably much of this same setup, along with the Googling of attendees.

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